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When, like the Tianamen Square demonstrators, it met with an uncompromising government counter-attack, it soon became obvious that, however strange and fantastic its followers might seem from the outside, Party leaders viewed the movement as a menace They labeled it a xiejiao zuzhi, literally a “heretical” or “depraved” organization, a term of denigration long-reserved for “unorthodox” religious or spiritual groups based on superstition.