Xi’s Leninist Selectocracy has Cemented Party Dictatorship Xi’s Leninist Selectocracy has Cemented Party Dictatorship Executive Summary: - General Secretary Xi Jinping’s reforms to the nomenklatura system has built a selectocracy that is best understood as a realignment with Leninist party-building norms after experiments with more democratic bottom-up mechanisms under Xi’s predecessor, Hu Jintao....