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Dr. Mannheim admits "a certain affinity" between central plan–
ning and the one-party system; but he aims nevertheless to make ' it
compatible with a two-party system-and hence with political freedom
-by establishing a new institution "outside the general machinery of
the representative system though forming an integral part of the political
process." This institution, which Mannheim calls "an Order," would
consist of "the most prominent representatives of various strata and
elements of the community" and would be "a kind of supreme tribunal
to guarantee consistency and continuity in planning." "As in a religious
order," Mannheim weirdly continues, "admission should require such
rigorous commitments from members that the highest devotion and
disinterestedness would be secured." And then he adds, even more
weirdly, that this institution would remain "outside the contest for
power."
Mannheim's editors insist that since 1935 his thoughts on planning
have been haunted by the maxim:
quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
If
the
Order represents
his
considered solution to this problem, then his think–
ing clearly did not go very deep. The fact is that his conception of
"the Age of Planning," for all its deference to the British experience,
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