Shachtman and the ISL moved from Leninism to an avowedly Marxist version of democratic socialism. Party leader Meg Lees formed the more avowedly centrist Australian Progressive Alliance in 2003. Like Newton, the Rosicrucians were deeply religious, avowedly Christian, anti-Catholic, and highly politicised. Cultural studies is avowedly and even radically interdisciplinary and can sometimes be seen as antidisciplinary. Designs combined advanced technology and engineering with an avowedly Communist social purpose. It even polled behind the avowedly satirical Bill and Ben Party. They supported royal privilege, and were avowedly anti-democratic. Cunningham sees "A Handful of Dust" as a forerunner of Waugh's later, avowedly Catholic novels. Her five daughters avowedly doted on their youngest brother. And he can also be an avowedly supernatural being, outside the human race.