This book is a more polished version of this book, if you only read one, read the first.

It will give you a reference point amidst any chaos in your life.
I would recommend it first out of all the others.
Until you find peace within yourself it is hard to inspire peace in others.

As for the 'communism' you have experienced, here is a lady that would dispute that what you have suffered was even remotely communism.
Socialusts use gov't force, communists cooperate to make a mutually better world.

Here is where the banksters put marx into power by giving him the press and excluding Bakunin from recieving any mentions in the newspapers that wasn't derogatory.

Beware folks that the media supports, imo.