The KPAM was part of the "autonomous village movement"[5] where anarchists and others, instead of focusing on some distant revolution or nationalist development plan, focused on meeting the material needs of the people and each other.[6] This was part of a coming together of nationalist and anarchist people as well as Korean peasants in partial response to hostilities from Imperial Japan and Communist Chinese forces. Though initially separate the two main affinities came together in a form of organization called "no rule" where social organization was based on individual liberty and mutual aid.[6]