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Did Schoenberg consider dodecaphony in terms of democracy and freedom?

Can anyone substantiate the asserveration below? [Why do some people dislike Schoenberg so intensely? : classicalmusic](https://old.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/50j2oh/why_do_some_people_dislike_schoenberg_so_intensely/)

> That didn't happen, I think, for two reasons. First, as I mentioned, his music did not obviously "take sides," leaving his music in an ambiguous limbo onto which people could easily project their own prejudices. (**For the record, Schoenberg considered dodecaphony in terms of democracy and freedom**, Emancipation of Dissonance, and all that, but obviously not everybody saw it that way.) Then also, he was a German in America during a time when popular opinion of Germany was at an all time low, what with the World Wars and all that.