The two blocs of the Cold War

The Cold War (1947/1991) is known as the "ideological" war between the Western Block (lead by the USA) and the Eastern Block (lead by USSR). USA and its allies, the members of NATO (1949) defended Capitalism. Capitalism is a system in which economy is the prime concern. The economy has to be left to the hands of the market, without the intervention of the state. The means of production are privatized (meaning they are owned by companies and not by the states). USSR and the members of the Warsaw Pact (1955) followed a Communist system. In Communism, the means of production are in the hands of the workers. It founds a society without social classes. It starts with a revolution that has to be lead by the proletariat against the rich aristocrats. Wealth is equally distributed among the people. The main thinker of Communism is Karl Marx. There is also a Third World, or the non-aligned, which were the countries that refused to choose between the two Blocks. To name a few, India,Brazil, and Tunisia