Kang called for an end to property and the family in the interest of an idealized future cosmopolitan utopia and cited Confucius as an example of a reformer and not as a reactionary, as many of his contemporaries did. The latter idea was discussed in great detail in his work "Kongzi Gaizhi Kao" (孔子改制攷), or "Study of the Reforms of Confucius." He argued, to bolster his claims that the rediscovered versions of the Confucian classics were forged, as he treated in detail in "Xinxue weijing kao’’（新学伪经考） (A Study of the Classics Forged during the Xin Dynasty C.E.).