Capitalism. One of the social systems which contributed to the conflict during the Cold War. It allows people to privately own businesses, possessions and land. People living under a capitalist government have much more freedom as they have free speech and they are also allowed to vote. In the capitalist system, it has classes for the people: the higher class (capitalist class) tends to be a minority of people whom are owners of businesses and make a lot more money, whereas the working class usually has to trade their skills and ability to work for a salary. Furthermore, the working class people are the ones who work to produce the goods in which the capitalist class then use to make a profit. In the system, you get people of different classes based on their wealth and in that sense, capitalism is unfair.

Communism is the other social system which contributed to the conflict in the Cold War. It follows an concept where everything is owned and controlled by the state. Due to this there is much less freedom in the startup stage of Communism but in the ideal Communist state, there doesn’t need to be a state as everyone would be equal and would follow the law. As everything is equal in Communism, there is no way to gain profit as all the money is given back to the people thus taking away the class system found in capitalism. However, there is no way that the ideal Communist state can be created which means that the startup creates that sense of no freedom for the people as they do not have free speech, they cannot be materialistic and they cannot vote for a different party to run the country in a different way.