you're doing it for freedom from a system that increasingly shows how much they hate you, and abuses power/corruption to steal from you. the more you detach from them, the less they can steal.

when you talk about leftist utopias, you're talking about the ideals of the 1960s/1970s hippie communes that did it for nebulous claims that if you do all veggies/fruits yourself, it's somehow more efficient than a factory farm which has direct profit incentives to milk every penny of efficiency.

this isn't modern leftism. modern leftists would say the government banning local food production is for your safety... because THEY don't know how to grow a strawberry safely, no one is allowed to do so.