Industrial proletarians are steadily carried away by the growing movement out of the rural districts. Thus it may be reasonably assumed that only one-half of the pure-blooded proletarians remain in the village. This constitutes from 2 to 8 per cent. of the population. Relative rates, however, are sometimes misleading without reference to the absolute numbers. 2 per cent. of a 100-million population convey the illusion of a two million strong rural proletariat with pronounced class interests. Still we know that they are dissipated in villages with an average inhabitancy of 62 households (_cf._ above page: 50,429 communes with 3,309,020 households). Now the maximum 8 per cent. of 62 households means only 5 proletarian families, and the minimum 2 per cent., only 1 proletarian of the European type to a village. It seems to show that there can be no proletarian class spirit (“_proletarisches Klassen-bewusstsein_”) in the Russian village of to-day. [130] +--------------------+--------------------------------------+---------+ | | Households. (Per cent.) | Horses | | Classes in the +------+------+-------+-------+--------+ to 1 | | district of |Horse-|With 1|With 2 |With 3 | With 4 |household| | Korotoyak. | less.|horse.|horses.|horses.| horses | upon an | | | | | | |or more.| average.| +--------------------+------+------+-------+-------+--------+---------+ |Trading farmers | | 12 | 25 | 27 | 36 | 3.2 | |Farmers merely | | | 45 | 38 | 17 | 2.8 | |Farmers--laborers | | 40 | 37 | 15 | 6 | 1.8 | | | | | |__________________| | | |Proletarian laborers| 90 | 9 | 1 | 0.1 | +--------------------+------+------+------------------------+---------+ [131] _Households._ _D. of Korotoyak._ _With net profit. _With deficit. Per cent._ Per cent._ Male workers to 1 household-- None .. 3 } 73 One 29 70 } Two 41 } 71 23 } 27 Three or more 30 } 4 } [132] _Households._ _D. of Korotoyak._ _With net profit. _With deficit. Per cent._ Per cent._ Size of the farms-- Less than 5 dessiatines .. 15 From 5 to 15 dessiatines .. 79 From 15 to 25 dessiatines 72 6 Above 25 dessiatines 28 .. --- --- Total 100 100