I was in China a few years back, and there was a clanker rolling around serving my food at a restaurant.
Now they've got humanoid clankers doing backflips and shit on national television for the world to see. One even corrected itself when it stumbled.
Re intelligentsia, they are only reactionary because they are selected by capitalist institutions to be reactionary. As in only intelligentsia with reactionary ideas have their research funded. So that can easily be alleviated by seeking out and funding intelligentsia whose ideas advance socialism. Imagine if Grover Furr got funding and was heavily publicized.
The petite bourge are willing to accept lower pay as long as there is lowered operational risk. This is where state owned enterprises go a long way in managing the petite bourgeois by giving them consistent business. As an example, the soviet union and the PRC allowed for private enterprises, because the majority of the economy was state owned.
Similar to the intelligentsia, the labour aristocracy are chosen for their position based not only on competence but also their tendency towards reaction. But even so, a lot of the labour aristocracy are apolitical and materialistic, because a lot of their work necessitates interaction with material reality.