Communist propaganda therefore stands in opposition to bourgeois or capitalist propaganda. The distinction between bourgeois and proletarian public spheres is not mainly a distinction between classes. They thus tended to ally themselves with the forces of bourgeois liberalism. The theme was based on revolt against materialism, rationalism, positivism, bourgeois society and liberal democracy. The theme was based on a revolt against materialism, rationalism, positivism, bourgeois society and democracy. This explains the success of the concert of birds paintings in bourgeois and aristocratic circles. Modern art was banned as being decadent, bourgeois and elitist. The union between the internationalists and the republican bourgeois became an accomplished fact. The CGT dismissed feminism as a bourgeois movement. Karl Marx expressed disappointment at the bourgeois character of the revolutions. Craven has said that the film expresses rage against American culture and the bourgeois. Still branded him a sell-out with bourgeois aspirations. Their own interests, which they understood as "civil" or "bourgeois", seemed irrelevant. His ethics are those of bourgeois values and labor. Sexuality is undoubtedly one of the most important themes in the work of Louise Bourgeois.