What is the significance of the proposition that "political work is the lifeline of the Red Army"

The assertion that "political work is the lifeline of the Red Army" makes it clear that political work is a necessary element to ensure the life of our army, and it is of fundamental significance to realize the absolute leadership of the party over the army, ensure the nature and high degree of centralization and unity of the people's army, and perform its functions and tasks well.

As the people's army under the leadership of the Party, the life of our army includes three basic aspects: First, the nature of the people's army determined by the Party's absolute leadership over the army and the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly is the political life of our army. Once our army deviates from the party's leadership and the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, it means changing its own nature and losing its political life. The second is to maintain a strong cohesion of high unity, which is the organizational life of our army. Once our army's thoughts are scattered and its organization is loose, it will become fragmented and even fragmented, which means that it will lose its organizational life. Third, it is the functional life of our army to successfully complete the powerful combat effectiveness entrusted by the party and the people. Once our army loses its combat effectiveness, it can't win the battle and can't successfully complete various tasks, which means losing its functional life. Therefore, clearly pointing out that political work is the lifeline of our army, that is, it is an important factor that constitutes the combat effectiveness of the army, which is of fundamental significance for realizing the party's absolute leadership over the army, ensuring the nature and high degree of centralization and unity of the people's army, and performing its functions and tasks well.

(2) Practical significance

1. Political work provides correct political guidance for economic work and all other work and construction.

Political work plays a powerful political guiding role in ensuring that socialist modernization always adheres to the correct direction, road and principles. Looking back on the history of China's modernization drive, we can see that only through strong ideological and political work can we unify the Party's thinking, firmly establish the guiding position of Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development and ensure the Party's leadership. Without ideological and political work, economic work and all other work will deviate from the right direction. As Comrade Mao Zedong said: "As long as our ideological and political work is slightly relaxed, economic and technical work will definitely go astray." Ideological and political work has also provided correct value orientation for the broad masses of cadres and the masses. China is at the critical stage of reform, and the "four diversities" have brought some negative impacts on people's ideas. Coupled with the long-standing feudal superstition, the influence of feudal remnants and the erosion of capitalist liberalization, personal outlook on life and values have been impacted. Ideological and political work provides people with positive socialist core values, establishes correct ideals and beliefs, outlook on life and values, and provides correct value orientation. If we relax our vigilance and neglect ideological and political work, then in the ideological field, Marxist proletarian thoughts will not occupy, and all kinds of non-Marxist non-proletarian thoughts and even anti-Marxist thoughts will occupy.

2. Political work can provide powerful spiritual motivation for the realization of the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way.

The people are the creators of history and the driving force of social development. During the democratic revolution, we won the revolutionary war by relying on the people, but in peacetime, we still rely on the people for socialist construction. Only by firmly believing that the masses rely on the masses and fully mobilizing the enthusiasm and creativity of the broad masses of the people can China be built into a powerful socialist country. The ultimate realization of the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way depends on mobilizing the masses to fully trust and rely on them and concentrate their wisdom and strength. A great role of ideological and political work is to dig out the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the masses and mobilize them, so that socialist construction can obtain the broadest and most reliable mass base and source of strength.

3. Political work can provide a healthy development environment for economic work and other work by building a stable and United political situation and a stable social order.

Social stability is very important to economic development, and stability is very important. Under the condition of socialist market economy, great changes have taken place in society: the system is changing, the interest pattern is changing, the components of economic development and economic interests are diversified, and the employment forms of social life and social organizations are also diversified. In all kinds of changes, new contradictions and some unstable factors will inevitably appear. If these contradictions are not handled well, they will directly hinder the development of productive forces. The political situation that is not conducive to stability and unity is very important to deal with these contradictions and do a good job in people's ideological work. Ideological and political work should make use of existing conditions, help the masses solve practical difficulties in production, study and life, and do practical things for the masses in a down-to-earth manner. Through ideological and political work, we can understand the overall situation of the masses, find out the truth, straighten out emotions, enhance confidence, eliminate doubts and create good environmental conditions for reform and development. Only when the whole society is filled with a stable, peaceful, healthy and orderly atmosphere can economic work and other work be carried out smoothly.