Sharon Smith (born 1956) is an American socialist and anti-racist writer and activist.
She is the author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States and of Women and Socialism: Essays on Women's Liberation.
In the course of some of these essays, Smith takes up an argument she had previously made in a lengthy article in International Socialism, arguing against identity politics, which she views as a mistaken approach for feminism or any other movement against oppression.
[2][3][4] In a new "fully revised and updated edition" Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital, 2015,[5] she expands on "social reproduction theory".
Subterranean Fire,[6] published by Haymarket in 2006, is a history of the US labor movement from the late 19th century through the 21st, focusing on the role of its left wing.