I would highly recommend to anyone who is interested in the idea of property, its history, and its relationship to society in more than just a cursory fashion read Property and Freedom. It's written by a conservative academic who is an expert in the history of Russia/USSR, so I'm sure he'll have some detractors on these boards, but as a piece of scholarship, it's brilliant.
Richard Pipes dismantled communism/marxism-leninism in such a thorough and relentless fashion that it fundamentally altered my perception of world politics. You're right; he didn't vote for Mondale or dukakis. Doesn't diminish his arguments one iota.
As a companion, I also recommend Thomas Jefferson's letter to McPherson. It's a very intelligent, well-reasoned consideration of the concept and implications of information as property, written at a time when the concept was new to the world. http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/jefferson-macpherson-letter.html