Weber, is presented as a "given." Like Weber, Marx (p. 2 of 4) does not care whether or not his basic sets of assumptions are or are not true. Using a stylized definition of the problem, again like Weber, Marx then presents a stylized answer to the problem he has presented: "the republic signifies in general only the political form of revolution of bourgeois society and not its conservative form of life" (Marx, 25).
Marx then elaborates his answer in three stages: a statement of a hypothesis relating a dependent variable to one or more independent variables, construction of the dependent variable (in this case a dictatorship
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