Is the Minimum Wage a Marxist Plot?

You don’t have to be a Marxist to support a higher minimum wage, but it turns out that some of the 600 economists who signed a letter to President Obama in January advocating a federal minimum wage of $10.10 an hour are indeed followers of the bushy-bearded 19th century economist who said religion is the opiate of the masses and the proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.