The economist thinks they can describe revolution purely in terms of rational actors following their self-interest at an individual level and decided to write 8th grade math to model this (it looks fancier than it is because they subscripted variables). First principles nonsense with no relation to psychology, conditions in which people find themselves, the dynamics of class itself, demographics...
Thought-terminating cliche! The classic liberal coping mechanism.
You're not going to convince your teacher through well-sourced arguments, but you may have sown some doubts. I'd look to your classmates as a better audience in this class.
The ML one is tied to this one too, lol.
Socialist Workers Party -> Workers World Party -> Party for Socialism and Liberation.
The US has a funny Trot-to-ML pipeline from trot party splits.