Answer questions on Max Weber and Marx-Engels?

Answer Questions from two books one being “Gerth and Mills From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology” and “The Marx-Engels Reader” Second Edition Edited by Robert C. Tucker.

Here are the Questions:

Gerth and Mills From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

Set 1 Questions:

(1) Weber asks “What do we understand by politics?” (p. 77).

Question: How do you think he answers that: what do you think he means by “politics”?

(2) He then asks “What is a ‘state’?” (pp. 77-79).

Question: (a) How do you think he answers that: what do you think he means by “the state” (pp. 77-78)?

(b) And why does Weber necessarily link what he means by “politics” to what he means by “the state” (pp. 78-79)?

(3) According to Weber, what is the relationship between the state and the use of violence (p.78)?

And what specific kind of violence—and use of violence—is he referring to?

(4) He later asks “When and why to men [in a particular society] obey [their state]?” (p. 77). Question: How do you think he answers that: how do rulers and/or how does the state itself “manage to maintain their domination?” (p.80).

(5) According to Weber, “Neither the worker nor—and this has to be noted well—the entrepreneur, especially the modern, large-scale entrepreneur, is economically dispensable. …In the main, it is very difficult for the entrepreneur to be represented in his enterprise by someone else, even temporarily” (p. 85).

Question: What do you think this says about (a) how Weber understands the various social groups who play a role in politics and (b) the relative importance of each social group?