Mao Zedong was a political leader.
In political and social sciences , communism ( from Latin communis , `` common , universal '' ) is the philosophical , social , political , and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society , which is A dictator is a political leader who wields absolute power . Mao Zedong . ( Mao himself admitting 800,000 deaths in the classicide and 712,000 in the suppression of Counterrevolutionaries ) In 1957 , he launched the Great Leap Forward campaign that aimed to rapidly transform China 's economy from an agrarian economy to an industrial one .