Fucking Christ you’re acting dense. Why he was assassinated isn’t the point, it’s that a number of factors could’ve prevented it from succeeding and changed the course of how WW1 played out.
Material conditions can tell you many things, none of which are what turn Franz Ferdinand’s driver took, whether or not Princip’s finger slipped, whether the drivers were told about the new itinerary, if the specific bomb used initially was a dud or not, etc.
A lot of things can happen by random chance or an individual person, or group of them, fucking up. You can say World War 1 was inevitable but it would be incredibly stupid to say that it was inevitable that it played out the way it did.
“Materially conditions sure might have affected his decision to assassinate someone, but material conditions didn’t explain why the driver went down which road he did, checkmate Marxists, everything is random”
i heard that gavrilo princip wasn’t a member of an organized yugoslav nationalist movement with the explicit goal of starting a civil war between the yugoslavs and austria-hungary, knowing russia would come to their defense.
Comments
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
Written in 1895. Takes place in 1920 shortly after the Great War ended.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8492/8492-h/8492-h.htm
Otto von Bismarck, Berlin, 1878