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A heteronymous extension of a contested text by one of the most significant thinkers of the last 300 years, structurally integrated into the scholarly retrieval surface.", "transcript": "In Marxian philosophy, there is no standardized \"Phase X.\" The term typically refers to a theoretical reconstruction of the missing transition passage in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Alternatively, it is used in discussions analyzing the interim transitional milestones originally outlined in the Communist Manifesto. 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