famous pasage :

"This sphere that we are deserting, within whose boundaries the sale and purchase of labour-power goes on, is in fact a very Eden of the innate rights of man. There alone rule Freedom, Equality, Property and Bentham."

Freedom,
because both buyer and seller of a commodity,
say of labour-power, are constrained only by their own free will. They contract as free agents,
and the agreement they come to,
is but the form in which they give legal expression
to their common will.

Equality,
because each enters into relation with the other,
as with a simple owner of commodities,
and they exchange equivalent for equivalent.

Property, because each disposes
only of what is his own.

And
Bentham,
because each looks only to himself.
The only force that brings them together
and puts them in relation with each other,
is the selfishness,
the gain and the private interests of each.
Each looks to himself only,
and no one troubles himself about the rest,"

here's his mephistos paraphrase of smith's
principle of the divine hand like outcome
of spontaneous market forces

" and just because they do so,
do they all,
in accordance with
the pre-established harmony of things,
or
under the auspices of an all-shrewd providence,
work together to their mutual advantage,
for the common weal
and in the interest of all. "

no as if ..here

has karl missed the point ???

failed to capture
smiths natural liberty conjecture

the existence of a pareto optimality
just out of the interactions
of self seeking self guided traders

the sweet harmony produced by
unleashing folks
to go about
buying and selling and making
just as they please

is karl
simply saying
this is a secular fantasy

the interacting of ego centric agents
can't promote a common good ???

more in our next med moment