物质利益体现的是一种社会关系，是人的思想和行为的根本动因。随着社会主义市场经济的不断发展，人们的利益观念逐渐增强，要做好思想政治工作，就必须研究人们物质利益的问题。如何把思想政治工作与物质利益原则有机结合起来，有必要从分析物质利益的社会功能特征入手来理清 The material interests embody a kind of social relationship and are the fundamental motivation of people’s thoughts and behaviors. With the continuous development of the socialist market economy, people’s interest concepts have been gradually enhanced. To do a good job in ideological and political work, we must study the issue of people’s material interests. How to combine the ideological and political work with the principle of material benefits, it is necessary to start with the analysis of the social function of material interests