An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary stat…

Theodor Adorno
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An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. ✨ Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). Essays on Music, p.79, Univ of California Press
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