Dostoyevsky also. In The Possessed. The progressives dreamed of stoning Shakespeare and plucking Corpsenicus’ eyes out.
In ‘The Morning of the Magicians’ one of the main characteristics of Hitler’s beliefs was the rejection of reasoning over mythology — anytime reasoning interfered with nazi occultism it(reasoning) was rejected. Hence you have the contradiction of nazi organization, german engineering etc. with the Thule Society, Spear of Destiny, Uberman, Theosophy. The left is now the same way — functionally insane. This is not just similarity, the left is occultic Hitlerism without the Hitler name.