“党管武装”是我们几十年来的传统和制度。随着经济体制改革尤其是政治体制改革的深入发展,“党管武装”的提法是否还适应新时期的人民武装工作呢?笔者对此持否定观点。“党管武装”的提法,是一定历史条件下的产物。从中国共产党成立那天起,党就把建立群众武装组织作为一项重要任务。战争年代,我们党动员和组织广大人民群众参加和支援革命战争,组织以民兵、游击队为主要形式的各种群众武装队伍,广泛开展游击战争,配合主力打击和瓦解敌军,摧毁反动政权,建立和保卫人民革命成果。那时,我党是在未掌握国家政 “Armed forces ” is our tradition and system for decades. With the in-depth development of the reform of the economic system and especially the reform of the political system, whether the formulation of “armed party control” still accords with the people’s armed work in the new period? I hold a negative view. The reference to “armed party control” is the product of certain historical conditions. From the day the CPC was founded, the party took the establishment of mass militias as an important task. In the war years, our party mobilized and organized the masses of the general public to participate in and support the revolutionary war, organized armed groups of various kinds who took militia and guerrillas as their main forms, extensively launched guerrilla warfare, coordinated the main efforts to crack down on and disintegrate the enemy’s forces and destroyed reactionary regimes, Establish and defend the people’s revolutionary achievements. At that time, our party did not grasp state affairs