军队的基本职能和根本任务,决定着政治工作在军队建设中的重要地位。政治工作的这一地位,并不随着社会经济机制的转变而失其客观性。 军队是执行国家政治任务的武装集团。有军队才有主权统一的国家。军队的性质决定了它与国家(统治阶级或统治集团)的基本关系,决定了它在国家机器中的特殊地位。军队是以暴力的形式体现国家的政治意志,执行国家的政治任务的。社会主义国家同样如此。我国宪法对我军在国家生活中的基本职能和根本任务就有着明确规定。但是,军队在自己的活动中并不是自发地执行和体现国家的政治意志的。这是由于军队以战争为主要活动方式,战争有其自身的客观规律性, The basic functions and fundamental tasks of the army determine the important position of political work in the building of the army. This position of political work does not lose objectivity with the change of socio-economic mechanisms. The army is an armed group that carries out the country’s political tasks. Only the armed forces have the sovereignty and unity of the country. The nature of the army determines its basic relationship with the state (ruling class or ruling group) and determines its special status in state machines. The armed forces, in the form of violence, embody the political will of the state and carry out the country’s political tasks. The same is true of socialist countries. Our country’s constitution has clearly stipulated the basic functions and fundamental tasks for our army in the country’s life. However, the military does not voluntarily implement and embody the political will of the country in its own activities. This is due to the fact that the armed forces mainly take war as their main mode of activity. The war has its own objective laws,