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Dude's paper is worth a skim, if only to better understand villains in a narrative. He has some legitimate grievances. He makes some interesting points. He then brutally murdered a bunch of powerless academics and random middle-class citizens for no discernible purpose.
For comparison, Osama bin Laden killed a shitload of people, and arguably attained quite a few of his goals. Various assassins throughout recent history have shaped the future within their lifetimes - sometimes as intended, like the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., sometimes super duper not, like the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Teddy boy pointed high up the chain, said his problems were systemic, and punched some rando standing nearby.
It was a giant hostage situation, to force papers to publish his manifesto so people would read it. That's definitely a discernible purpose. Not a justified purpose, but certainly discernible.
The Black Hand achieved its goals, the creation of a "Greater Serbia" from the corpse of the Austria-Hungarian Empire.
They just ended up calling the state Yugoslavia instead.
And, okay, yeah, starting WW1 wasn't the PRECISE goal but they were trying to start a war that led to collapse, cut them some slack, jeez.