I'm about to read Xi's book and will post passages in /c/literature when I do. Just did Blackshirts and Reds, State and Rev, and am doing an abridged version of Capital right now.

From what I read in State and Rev, I don't see any serious abandonments China has made from Marxism or Leninism. Lenin has a lot of ideas, but constantly repeats that "the form of the revolutionary proletarian dictatorship will be determined by the experience of the proletarians" and that the primary function of the state should be it's preservation of political capital and denial of political capital to capitalists as well as massive expansions of democracy.

Which some people say isn't happening in China, but Lenin (and Marx) are materialists and only judge expansion of democracy in relation to the society/social mode of production the revolutionary state emerged from. So yeah, China emerged from feudalism with not even a bourgeois democracy and now has by comparison a hugely democratic system (which is expanding, not contracting).