Since he first conceived of his planned community, he’s been called an atheist, a survivalist, a communist, an anarchist, and an anarcho-communist. His overarching political belief is that capitalism is bullshit. “Government isn’t ruining capitalism. Capitalism is ruining government. I think that’s kind of obvious,” he says. “If you take capitalism out of government you get simple public representation. If you take government out of capitalism, you get slavery.”