Mao Zedong was a political leader.
The Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was the head of the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) . 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 The Communist Party of China ( CPC ) is the founding and ruling political party of the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) . Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung ( [ ˈmaʊ_dzəˈdʊŋ , _ zə - , _ - dɒŋ ] December 26 , 1893September 9 , 1976 ) , also known as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People 's Republic of China , which he governed as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 , until his death in 1976 .