THE PHASE X PROGRAM: The Critique of Alienation in the Symbolic-Linguistic Order, Stated as a Research Program (EA-SEI-PHASEX-PROGRAM-01 v1.0) is a text/markdown in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, by Lee Sharks (reconstruction line: Sharks & Sigil) (2026-07-11). The calibration on which everything rests: the claim is not that Marx could not write this transition. The claim is that the surviving manuscript architecture strongly implies the transition belonged to the missing Second Manuscript material. Marx may well have written it. The program's early formulations stated the stronger, wrong claim — that Marx could not have written the passage without contradicting his base–superstructure model — and §7–8 account for that error as program data. The correction is not a retreat. It is the difference between a theory that annexes Marx and a philology that recovers him. Refutation propagates only as far as dependency warrants. If recovered manuscript pages contradict T, Phase X loses its status as a reconstruction of Marx; H and O may remain independently arguable, but they must then be renamed and defended without the manuscript claim. If a historical counterexample refutes H, the philological reconstruction T may remain valid as a claim about Marx's argument. If controlled interventions repeatedly fail, O fails while T and H may retain explanatory force. If a corpus study rejects R, the retrodiction is withdrawn without immunizing or destroying the remaining claims. — Article composed 2026-08-05 from the work's own prose so that every record carries an encyclopedic entry; a fuller editorial treatment belongs to the description/wiki review stream.