The academic circle has been doing indepth study on the necessity and feasibility of the popularizing of the Marxism. To start with the relationship between the popularization of Marxism and the academic research, this article clarifies the differences and connections between the two, and further points out that the academic research without the popularization of Marxism will lead to mysticism and that the popularization of Marxism without academic research will inevitably result in formalism and vulgarization.