All models are wrong, but that doesn't stop them from being informative. Looking at things like the Revolutions of 1848, it's easy to see how the idea applies,

All models are wrong, but that doesn't stop them from being informative. Looking at things like the Revolutions of 1848, it's easy to see how the idea applies, as so many of them were driven by University students who had no money, had no prospect of being absorbed by the existing power structures, and were not allowed any political participation. The result? Revolutionary agitation.