Did I? Absolutely. It doesn't matter what any one else says: if communication cannot occur on the basis of a shared reality, a shared system of values, shared concerns, mutual regard, reciprocity, and so on, what is it going to help to quote Marx or De Beauvoir or anyone else for that matter. You might have to spend some time and energy establishing that shared ground, but that's why we have intelligence and a conscious sensibility.
One of the reasons I left academia was because no one seemed to be able to use their own heads, life, or experience to carry on a conversation.
Joanna