The capitalism
The division of the world into two blocks not only confined to the field of foreign policy; the marked differences socio-economic and political organization systems.
Western or capitalist world, is based on a democratic system of government based on free elections and political pluralism, with a constitution that regulates the organization of the State and the rights and duties of citizens.
A liberal economic system, called market economy, which is supply and demand that sets prices, and defends free competition. The company is based on economic wealth, in a process of equality between men and women and to a lesser weight of tradition.
Europe will begin to take shape as an international entity first order. In 1957 the European Economic Community (EEC) was created with six founding countries; Today the EEC has given way to the European Union and are twenty-seven countries who comprise it.
Communism
The communist world introduced a totalitarian system (called popular democracies), with a single party and without freedom of expression.
Unlike the western world's the economy was controlled by the state, he was the one who fixed the objectives to comply, as well as prices and wages of workers. trying put an egalitarian society but regardless of individual liberties.
The fall of the Soviet Union meant the end of this regime, although there are still countries, such as China or Cuba, they maintain, with some variations, this political and economic system.
some opine that capitalism oppresses the poorest people, and gives privileges to those already in power making this an oppressive regime, privatizing and granting powers to those who already have hierarchy in society.
some opine that communism becomes an oppressor to regulate the economy by expropriating and distributing goods making this a weak economy.