Communist 12tet?

I find it interesting that some people use communist analogies when deriding 12tet.
12tet deserves some derision, but not at the expense of communism. Alternative
tuning is as philosophically proletarian as one could hope, in its aim to revolutionize
intellectual thought, to stand up for the rights of the disenfranchized outsiders and,
for some, to overthrow the prevailing system. I like to think of 12tet as an aristocracy,
given its close association with the excesses of the Romantic orchestra and the
Wagner et al. generation. Adorno seemed to argue that popular music is like the
capitalist bourgeois, ousting the old aristrocratic art. Challenging contemporary
music, especially in alternative tunings, would seem a clear candidate for proletarian
status, no? (Of course, this begs the question of what I mean by 'challenging' and I
would have to agree with Adorno that challenging music is music that is capable of
expressing emotions that do more than simply prop up the status quo: e.g., anger,
alienation, political unrest as well as elements of sublime peace and emotional
sincerity that are sorely lacking in most capitalist art traditions--genre is
unimportant so long as the content is not purely commercial.) -Justin