i believe that Mao have some good intentions for his countrymen compare to other dictators, he did all of these because he want to improve poor people's condition and he wants to give them more privileges and opportunities which they don't have previously during the capitalist leaders during early 20th century where the only class of people who can speak for themselves are the rich people unlike the poor people who can't complain about their condition. I'm not surprised if the capitalist Chinese government prior the WW2 was swiftly replaced by Mao's communist government, the capitalist government failed to defend China from Japanese attacks and people's condition became worse. Also, Mao understands how life is hard when you're poor person because he was born from a poor family.