Don't repeat the old joke over and over all the time!
Not again!
Is your literacy level really hampering your reading the facts?
Before the CPC took over in 1949, literacy in China was about 20%, life expectancy was 35 years.
If China were to take democracy of Western type, it will be at best another India or the Philippines.
Other facts:
http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~yqian/econ162/econ162 topic02s.pdf
We know Western powers love to see a miserable picture of
democracy in unoccupied and independent countries like this.
About Mao, some recent study shows that Mao actually laid down the foundation for current Chinese manufacturing power through industrialization.